Summer is here again, but everything has changed. For a while it seemed that the world had contracted in to a tedious microcosm of it’s previous self. It’s past time to

Today A-Yueh and Daddy had a baking morning and cooked up a Victoria Sponge cake . . .

Surely the most lovely pudding on a cold winter’s day is hot apple crumble with thick cool custard? Let’s do it . . .

There is steep, and then there are the staircases in Amsterdam houses - quite an adventure with a little child or carrying a large suitcase. Although, the view from the broad windows upstairs gave a lovely view of the arced canal.

The River Douro flows West almost 900km across the Iberian Peninsula from Soria Province in Spain, forming part of the border between northern Portugal and Spain, and again West through the Douro Valley and in to the Atlantic at Porto. Surrounding these last few hundred kilometres through Portugal is the area where grapes are grown to make the internationally renowned Port wine. Even in January,

Becoming a parent: The most exciting, nervous and happy time in life.